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Jmokhtar@Indiana.Edu Bloomington, in 47405 Website JASON SION MOKHTARIAN Department of Religious Studies Indiana University 230 Sycamore Hall, 1033 E. 3rd St. Email: [email protected] Bloomington, IN 47405 Website: www.jasonmokhtarian.com ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Indiana University, Associate Professor with tenure (2018-present; Assistant Professor, 2011-2018), Department of Religious Studies Director, Olamot Center for Scholarly and Cultural Exchange with Israel (2018– present) Core Faculty, Borns Jewish Studies Program Adjunct Professor in Central Eurasian Studies, History, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ancient Studies, and Islamic Studies EDUCATION University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D., Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Late Antique Judaism), 2011 University of California, Los Angeles M.A., Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Ancient Iranian Studies), 2007 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Research Fellow in Talmud and Iranian Studies, 2006 University of Chicago Divinity School M.A., History of Judaism, 2004 University of Chicago B.A./A.M., English and Religious Studies, 2001 RESEARCH INTERESTS Rabbinics, ancient Iranian studies, Talmud in its Sasanian context, comparative religion, ancient Jewish magic and medicine, Aramaic magic bowls, Zoroastrianism, Middle Persian (Pahlavi) literature, Judeo-Persian literature, religious interactions in early Islamic Iran, Jews of Persia RESEARCH LANGUAGES Hebrew, Aramaic (Talmud), Old Persian, Middle Persian, Modern Persian, Avestan, Arabic, French, German MOKHTARIAN, Curriculum Vitae 2 ______________________________________________________________________________________________ PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Remedies between Magic and Science. Under review. JOURNAL ARTICLES “Zoroastrian Polemics against Judaism in the Škand Gumānīg Wizār (Doubt-Dispelling Exposition).” Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations 3 (2018). Online at www.mizanproject.org. “Excommunication in Jewish Babylonia: Comparing Bavli Mo‘ed Qaṭan 14b-17b and the Aramaic Bowl Spells in a Sasanian Context.” Harvard Theological Review 108 (2015): 552-578. “The Boundaries of an Infidel in Zoroastrianism: A Middle Persian Term of Otherness for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.” Iranian Studies 48 (2015): 99-115. “Empire and Authority in Sasanian Babylonia: The Rabbis and King Shapur in Dialogue.” Jewish Studies Quarterly 19 (2012): 148-180. ESSAYS IN EDITED VOLUMES “The Material Culture of the Jews in Sasanian Mesopotamia.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Jews and Judaism in the Late Ancient Period, eds. N. Koltun-Fromm and G. Kessler (Blackwell Publishing, 2019) (forthcoming). “From Exile to Authority: Talmudic Portrayals of the Persians as Others.” In Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity, ed. C. Hezser (forthcoming). “Clusters of Iranian Loanwords in Talmudic Folkore: The Chapter of the Pious (b. Ta’anit 18b-26a) in its Sasanian Context.” In The Aggada of the Bavli and its Cultural World, eds. G. Herman and J. Rubenstein (Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2018), 125-148. “Rabbinic Depictions of the Achaemenid King Cyrus the Great: The Babylonian Esther Midrash (bMeg. 10b-17a) in its Iranian Context.” In The Talmud in its Iranian Context, eds. C. Bakhos and R. Shayegan (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010), 112-139. BOOKS IN PROGRESS The Aramaic Bowl Spells and Polythetic Definitions of Babylonian Jewish Identity A History of the Jews of Persia from Cyrus the Great to Ruhollah Khomeini MOKHTARIAN, Curriculum Vitae 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ARTICLES IN PROGRESS “The Aramaic Incantation Bowls: Past, Present, and Future” “Jews and Mandaeans in Sasanian Iran” “The Ganj-nāme, Mishnah Avot, and Islamic-Jewish Syncretism in Judeo-Persian Texts” EDITED VOLUMES Iranian Studies, special edition of the journal, “Religious Trends in Late Ancient and Early Islamic Iran.” Volume 48, No. 1 (2015): 1-115. Co-edited with David Bennett. BOOK REVIEWS Review of Richard J. Bautch and Mark Lackowski, eds., On Dating Persian Biblical Texts to the Persian Period: Discerning Criteria and Establishing Epochs (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019), Journal of the American Academy of Religion (forthcoming). Review of Martin Goodman, A History of Judaism (Princeton University Press, 2018), Journal of the American Academy of Religion 87 (2019): 287-90. Review of Frank F. Furstenberg, Behind the Academic Curtain: How to Find Success and Happiness with a Ph.D. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), Teaching Theology and Religion, March, 2015. Review of Shai Secunda and Steven Fine, eds., Shoshannat Yaakov: Jewish and Iranian Studies in Honor of Yaakov Elman (Boston: Brill, 2012), Zion 79 (2014): 438-42 [Hebrew]. Review of Sergey Dolgopolski, The Open Past: Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), H-Net Reviews, 2014. Review of Rivka Ulmer, Egyptian Cultural Icons in Midrash (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009), Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 42 (2011): 437. MAGAZINE ARTICLES “Don’t Try this at Home: The Unorthodox History of Medicine in the Talmud.” Tablet Magazine, forthcoming. “Translations of the Talmud in Iran Today,” Association for Jewish Studies Perspectives: The Translation Issue, Fall 2015. MOKHTARIAN, Curriculum Vitae 4 ______________________________________________________________________________________________ PRESENTATIONS “A New Model for Jewish-Mandaean Relations in Sasanian Iran: The Case of Magic and Medicine.” Association for Jewish Studies, Annual Conference, Dec. 2019 (accepted). “Rabbis and Others in Talmudic Medicine.” American Academy of Religion, Annual Conference, San Diego, Nov. 2019 (accepted). Respondent, “Jerusalem Between Bible and Archaeology.” Lecture by Oded Lipschits, Indiana University Themester program, Nov. 2019. “The Persian Context of the Babylonian Talmud.” Etz Chaim Sephardic Congregation, Indianapolis, 2019. Interview of filmmaker Avi Nesher, Indiana University Cinema series, “Rage and Glory: Films of Israeli Filmmaker Avi Nesher,” 2019. “Medical Remedies in the Babylonian Talmud: Magic or Medicine?” Congregation Beth Shalom, Bloomington, 2019. “Charms against Diseases in the Aramaic Bowl Spells.” European Association of Biblical Studies, Annual Conference, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, 2016. “Interreligious Polemics among Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Religions.” Middle East Studies Association, Annual Conference, 2016. “Magic and Medicine in the Jewish Aramaic Incantation Bowls.” Association for Jewish Studies, Annual Conference, 2016. “Zoroastrian Polemics against the Religions of Late Antiquity: A Study of the Škand Gumānīg Wizār in its Literary and Historical Context.” Indiana University, Workshop on Holistic Approaches to the Study of Early Islam and the Late Antique World, 2016. “Talmudic Tales in their Iranian Context.” University of California, Los Angeles, Center for the Study of Religion, 2016. “Language and Communication in Sasanian Mesopotamia.” New York University Conference, The Aggada of the Babylonian Talmud and its Cultural World, 2015. “The Methods and Sources for the Study of the Talmud in Its Sasanian Context.” Association for Jewish Studies, Annual Conference, 2015. “The Early Islamic Context of Pahlavi Texts on Jews and Judaism.” Indiana University, Islamic Studies Conference, 2014. MOKHTARIAN, Curriculum Vitae 5 ______________________________________________________________________________________________ “Disease and Bodily Injury in the Jewish Aramaic Bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia.” American Academy of Religion, Annual Conference, 2014. “‘May there be Healing from Heaven’: Magic and the Human Body in the Jewish Aramaic Bowls.” University of Michigan, Midwest Ancient Judaism colloquium, 2014. Respondent, Indiana University, Jewish Studies Graduate Student Conference, Genesis to Yesterday: Memory, Representation, and Jewish Identity, 2014. “The Talmud in Ancient Iran: The Rabbis and Persian Priests in a Judicial Context.” University of California, Irvine, 2013. “Excommunication and Rabbinic Authority in Late Sasanian Culture.” Association for Jewish Studies, Annual Conference, 2013. “The Babylonian Talmud between Persia and Rome: Rabbis, Magians, and Magicians in their Sasanian Context.” Indiana University, Ancient Studies Colloquium, 2013. “Jewish Culture in Ancient Iran from Ezra the Scribe to the Bavli.” UCLA Fowler Museum Conference, Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews, 2013. “‘If the haughty cease to exist, the Magian priests cease to exist’: Babylonian Rabbinic Attitudes towards the Persian Empire.” American Academy of Religion, Annual Conference, 2012. “Pahlavi Representations of the Other and the Rise of Islam.” Indiana University, Islamic Studies Conference, 2012. “Empire and Authority in Sasanian Babylonia: Sociocultural Ties between the Rabbis and Zoroastrian Priests.” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Conference, 2011. “The Two Halves of Divinity: Deut. Rabbah 11, Bavli Sanh. 39a, and the Portrayals of Persia in Midrash.” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Conference, 2009. “The Sages and King Shapur in Dialogue.” Princeton University Graduate Student Workshop, Rabbis and Others in Conversation, 2009. “Rabbinic Depictions of the Achaemenid King Cyrus the Great.” UCLA Conference, The Talmud
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